Why cancer patients waste away
A tumor-produced protein prevents cells from consuming sugar, two fly studies find
![Ovaries](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ti_ovaries_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SHRIVELED Tumors implanted in adult female fruit flies cause healthy ovaries (one shown, left) to waste away. The wasting (right) is caused by a protein secreted by cancer cells. The bar shown represents 500 micrometers.
D. Bilder and A. Figueroa-Clarevega/Univ. of California, Berkeley